Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | To them must belong the last word . |
2 | If there is only one adult resident , a discount of 25 per cent can be claimed ( s79 ) ; it is important therefore that if husband and wife cease to live together each of them should notify the local authority that separation has taken place so as to end joint liability and for the remaining resident spouse to claim the discount ( if applicable ) . |
3 | Er , the the the er er the fax in the first instance has been sent by a back bench member of this house who is not a minister , but I may tell the honourable gentleman that I get all sorts of things from mail shots inviting me to all er manner of functions , all of which find their way into the waste paper basket . |
4 | I may spot the unnatural symmetry which a real stick would not have . |
5 | Anyway , who knows , I may get the odd half-hour just to pop down the gangway and explore those fascinating little shops down there . ’ |
6 | My sister and I may share the same birthday , but we do n't share the same man , though if we did it would be none of your business . ’ |
7 | ‘ Perhaps I ought to wear the wretched thing after all , just to give a talking-point . |
8 | ‘ Thought I ought to present the right image — ’ |
9 | I must advise the hon. Gentleman , however , that the phrase in Big Farm Weekly , ’ Goodbye to the BSE scourge ’ was not mine , but that of the chief veterinary officer . |
10 | I must tell the hon. Gentleman that , as a new Member of Parliament , he should be more concerned with the possibility of improving the delivery of health care to his constituents . |
11 | Guevara begun by saying that I must understand the Cuban revolution . |
12 | In the interests of honesty and truthfulness , I must ask the hon. Gentleman to withdraw the form of words that he used — that the Government ’ blocked ’ the directive on pregnant women . |
13 | It seems to me that I must judge the present claim in nuisance by reference to the present character of the neighbourhood pursuant to the planning permission for use of the dockyard as a commercial port . |
14 | Obviously , you the supporters already accept that I must take the greater challenge when it comes . |
15 | says explaining why he had come to earth Jesus told the Roman governor Pontius Pilate , will thus I 've been born and for this purpose I have come out of the world that I should bear witness to the truth , but what particular truth was Jesus sent to earth to make no man , first just about his heavenly father , he taught his followers to pray that his father name be hallowed or hell holy and he prayed , I have made your name manifest to the man you gave me , also he said I must declare the good news with the kingdom of God , because for this I was sent forth , so what truths did Jesus come to er , to tell ? |
16 | That he heard I was so tremendously successful in the Gothic style that if he let me alone I should Gothicize the whole country , &c. , &c. , & c . |
17 | Perhaps I should leave the last word to my son . |
18 | But there is no issue for which simply to deduce from socially prescribed principles combined with factual propositions would be anything but a mechanical conformity ; I know why I should do the prescribed thing only if , at least at my moments of fullest awareness from other viewpoints , I feel moved to do so . |
19 | Anyway , if a sanitary inspector came in here I should think the whole place would be condemned . ’ |
20 | If this is difficult , I should eat the easy bit after Reggane . ’ |
21 | But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it . |
22 | I stammered something about not understanding cricket , totally incredulous that anyone should suppose I did understand it , or that I should regard the English side as ‘ we ’ . |
23 | Before we allow him to intrude on to my turf too far , I should set the whole business in its correct credit context . |
24 | I believed I should consider the Anglican Church not fully Christian in that it discriminated against women ; though I wanted to worship there . |
25 | Or I should say the wee imp ran into me . |
26 | And erm I should say the average family was around about four , four mark , four and five children mark . |
27 | It is important that I should ask the hon. Gentleman carefully to consider what he has just said about my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , who set out the legal position as a Law Officer . |
28 | I am not confident about how I should take the hon. Gentleman 's concluding remarks , but I shall bear with equanimity what I suspect may be a poisoned chalice . |
29 | He said : ‘ A few years ago Graham Taylor , then at Aston Villa , rang and said I should join the old organisation . |
30 | But I certainly did n't think , as I went into the trees , that I should have the apparent answer within another hundred yards . |